wildfire
noun
Origin of wildfire
Related Words for wildfire
flame, bonfire, conflagration, wildfire, inferno, blaze, light, flash, flare, combustion, burning, holocaust, flames, flaming, brightnessExamples from the Web for wildfire
Contemporary Examples of wildfire
Besides, victory fever had spread like wildfire throughout the Allied armies.
Anti-Korean books, magazines, and comic books are selling like wildfire.
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September 26, 2014
It was late October, six weeks after the initial outbreak, and the virus was rumored to be spreading like wildfire.
The dish “took off like wildfire,” says Leong, despite there being virtually no Chinese people in the area.
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April 19, 2014
Statutes will prevent this from spreading across the majority if it catches on like wildfire for the student athletes.
Historical Examples of wildfire
It spread like wildfire, and in half an hour all the town was in a ferment.
Howard Pyle's Book of PiratesHoward Pyle
The news of this assault spread like wildfire in the little town.
The Naval History of the United StatesWillis J. Abbot.
The news will spread like wildfire over the town and county.
A Girl of the CommuneGeorge Alfred Henty
Word had already fled like wildfire through the hamlet that the squire was there.
Robert ElsmereMrs. Humphry Ward
The paper went like wildfire, and the town all but doubled itself in my time.
Grey TownGerald Baldwin